Eskhellion
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- Mar 31, 2005
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I'm pretty sure this anemone is a pest type becuase my tank had nothing of the sort for many years, then I noticed one about 3 weeks ago. Now I have about a dozen anemones and they're growing very quickly both in size and number.
I started my tank a number of years ago, but because of deceptive salespeople, never realized how much the thing really cost and as a result, never finished setting it up. Right now, my 90gal tank has been sitting with no skimmer, ceiling lights, and a 304 filter for 2 years. I also haven't fed it for about that long and the dozen or more hermits seem to be doing just fine living off of the rock. Inside is about 60 lbs of live rock, caulerpa, hermits and some mushroom corals that grew out of the rock. I was getting ready to put a fish in when I noticed an anemone. I was stunned to see it because it didn't look like aiptasia, and I was under the impression that other types of anemones wouldn't grow without light.
These guys are transparent, but if you look at htem at an angle, have a blue green irridescence on the tenticles. They also have little flesh colored balls on the end of each tenticle. I think the sting must be quite bad because I had trouble pulling one off of my hand without damaging it. I didnt feel a sting, but it was holding on very hard. The largest now is about 2 inches across at full extension. I have 5 that are nearing or at the 2 inch mark and about 2-3 more of the tiny ones.
Do you guys have any idea what this is or should I borrow a camera and take a pic?
I'm tempted to pull them but they're really pretty and I haven't got much else growing in the tank... Still I have sooo many of them now.
Thanks.
Alina.
I started my tank a number of years ago, but because of deceptive salespeople, never realized how much the thing really cost and as a result, never finished setting it up. Right now, my 90gal tank has been sitting with no skimmer, ceiling lights, and a 304 filter for 2 years. I also haven't fed it for about that long and the dozen or more hermits seem to be doing just fine living off of the rock. Inside is about 60 lbs of live rock, caulerpa, hermits and some mushroom corals that grew out of the rock. I was getting ready to put a fish in when I noticed an anemone. I was stunned to see it because it didn't look like aiptasia, and I was under the impression that other types of anemones wouldn't grow without light.
These guys are transparent, but if you look at htem at an angle, have a blue green irridescence on the tenticles. They also have little flesh colored balls on the end of each tenticle. I think the sting must be quite bad because I had trouble pulling one off of my hand without damaging it. I didnt feel a sting, but it was holding on very hard. The largest now is about 2 inches across at full extension. I have 5 that are nearing or at the 2 inch mark and about 2-3 more of the tiny ones.
Do you guys have any idea what this is or should I borrow a camera and take a pic?
I'm tempted to pull them but they're really pretty and I haven't got much else growing in the tank... Still I have sooo many of them now.
Thanks.
Alina.